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  • Salafism

    Between Fact and Fiction

    by Yasir Qadhi ...
    A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Dao De Jing

    Laozi's Book of Life: A New Translation from the Ancient Chinese

    by J H Huang ...
    A groundbreaking and superlatively accurate new translation of Laozi’s The Dao De Jing, from the bestselling translator of The Art of War, promising to be the first English edition based on direct translation from the oldest known copies of the ancient Chinese text.One of the most significant and popular books in the history of human thought, and China’s earliest philosophical classic, The Dao De ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • The Golden Road

    How Ancient India Transformed the World

    FROM THE CO-HOST OF THE CHART-TOPPING EMPIRE PODCASTIndia was the forgotten heart of the ancient worldFor a millennium and a half, from about 250 BC to 1200 AD, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating around it a vast empire of ideas, an 'Indosphere' where its influence was predominant. During this period, the rest of Asia was the willing recipient of a mass-transfer ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Entrepreneur's Guide to the Book of Five Rings

    by Dominic Hale ...
    The Book of Five Rings is a classic Japanese text by the undefeated swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. In this book, he set out the 'true principles' required for victory in the martial arts and on the battlefield. His philosophy of rigorous self-control and dealing with physical and mental conflict has been appreciated by businessmen worldwide as a valuable toolkit for achieving success. Here, respected ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Laozi's Dao De Jing

    A New Interpretation for a Transformative Time

    by Laozi, Ken Liu ...
    A fresh, graceful translation of one of the most important and timeless classics—the foundational work of Daoism—by award-winning novelist Ken Liu, who contextualizes and demystifies this famously enigmatic text.Laozi’s Dao De Jing was written around 400 BC by a compassionate soul in a world torn by hatred and ambition, dominated by those that yearned for apocalyptic confrontations and prized ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Affective Betrayal

    Mind, Music, and Embodied Action in Late Qing China

    by Jean Tsui ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Affective Betrayal uses "affect" as an analytical category to explicate the fragility and fragmentation of Chinese political modernity. In so doing, the book uncovers some of the unresolved moral and philosophical obstacles China encountered in the past, as well as the cultural predicament the country faces at present.At the turn of the twentieth century, China's leading reformer Liang Qichao ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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  • The Whirlpool That Produced China

    Stag Hunting on the Central Plain

    by Tingyang Zhao ...
    Translated by Edmund Ryden ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    In The Whirlpool That Produced China, Tingyang Zhao offers a philosophical interpretation of China's historicity, explaining how the expansion of China was not due to the lures of expansionist behavior but to the offerings of the surrounding contenders as they were constantly being pulled into a whirlpool of growth and amalgamation. The peoples surrounding China on all four sides sought to win the ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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  • The Art of War

    Translated by Thomas Cleary ...
    Sun Tzu's Art of War, compiled more than two thousand years ago, is a study of the anatomy of organizations in conflict. It is perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world today. Now, this unique volume brings together the essential versions of Sun Tzu's text, along with illuminating commentaries and auxiliary texts written by distinguished strategists. The ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Those Who Act Ruin It

    A Daoist Account of Moral Attunement

    by Jacob Bender ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Drawing on both western and Chinese philosophy*, Those Who Act Ruin It* shows how Daoism presents a viable alternative to established moral theories. The Daoist, critical of the Confucian and Mohist discourses of their time, provides an account of morality that can best be understood as achieving an attunement to situations through the cultivation of habits. Furthermore, Daoism's meta-ethical ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Sāṃkhya System

    Accounting for the Real

    Edited by Christopher Key Chapple ...
    Series series SUNY series in Hindu Studies
    The Sāṃkhya System brings new life to an ancient Hindu system of thought. Sāṃkhya spans the fields of philosophy, physics, metaphysics, psychology, and ethics. Although notably not theological, its key premises can be found in virtually all religious traditions that originate from India. Sāṃkhya espouses a reciprocity between Prakṛti, the realm of activity, and Puruṣa, the silent witness. It also ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Colección de relatos de Uji

    Antología del Uji shui monogatari

    Series series Letras Universales
    La "Colección de relatos de Uji" constituye una de las más importantes recopilaciones medievales de cuentos de Japón. Sus historias, de carácter moral o edificante, pero ricas en humor y descripciones de costumbres, representan una mordaz mirada crítica y el escarnio a la ambivalencia ética de diferentes figuras religiosas. ... Read more

    $12.96 USD

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  • Myth and the Making of History

    Narrating Early China with Sarah Allan

    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Myth and the Making of History examines the relationship between myth and history in early China, a topic that has been explored by American paleographer and scholar of ancient China Sarah Allan throughout her career. Allan has worked at a crucial and sensitive intersection, where myth and history collide at the very heart of China's origin story. Her work has created an intellectual space in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Art of War Puzzle Book

    Challenges of Strategy, Intelligence, and Surprise

    by Roland Hall ...
    Put your logical thinking to the test with this brain-boosting puzzle book, inspired by Sun Tzu's classic treatise of military strategy, The Art of War.Written by bestselling puzzle author Roland Hall, this collection includes over 100 narrative puzzles which bring the tactics and strategic thinking of The Art of War to life. Prove you can outsmart the enemy on the battlefield or in the boardroom ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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  • Critical Theory: The Basics

    Series series The Basics
    Critical Theory: The Basics brings clarity to a topic that is confusingly bandied about with various meanings today in popular and academic culture.First defined by Max Horkheimer in the 1930s, “critical theory” now extends far beyond its original German context around the Frankfurt School and the emergence of Nazism. We now often speak of critical theories of race, gender, anti-colonialism, and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • Reading the I Ching (Book of Changes)

    Themes, Imagery, Expressions, and Rhetoric

    The 3,000 year old I Ching is the most esteemed of the ancient Chinese classics, yet also the most enigmatic. Reading the I Ching (Book of Changes) incorporates recent advances in scholarship, such as recently excavated texts, and demonstrates how the Zhouyi (the ancient textual layer of the I Ching) was compiled from mostly oral material and how it was organized to serve as an easily consulted ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

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  • The Origins of Modern Japanese Philosophy

    Nishida Kitaro and the Meiji Period

    by Richard Stone ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies
    Nishida Kitaro is widely considered as the first original philosopher in modern Japan. Addressing this claim, Richard Stone critically examines Nishida's relation to his contemporary philosophers in the Meiji era (1868-1912), highlighting the continuity, difference and relationships between them.Stone reassesses the notion that Nishida's An Inquiry into the Good (1911) was substantially more ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

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  • Secret Tactics

    Lessons From the Great Masters of Martial Arts

    by Kazumi Tabata ...
    This invaluable martial arts philosophy handbook presents ancient wisdom for contemporary readers.Secrete Tactics contains brilliant new interpretations of fundamental works of strategy and martial arts tactics by Miyamoto Musashi, Gichin Funakoshi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, and various martial arts tomes. It distills the important teachings on leadership, character and values found in those books. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Art of War

    by Sun Tzu ...
    “The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.”There is a reason why five-star generals and Fortune 500 CEO’s alike have consulted this classic book on the planning and conduct of military operations. Written in China more than 2000 years ago, The Art ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Unlocking the Chinese Gate

    Manifestations of the Space "In-Between" in Early China

    by Galia Dor ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Unlocking the Chinese Gate offers an innovative analysis of gates in early Chinese thought and material culture. Observing gates from various perspectives—including philosophy, architecture, and psychology—and through the conceptual lens of Chinese correlative thinking, Galia Dor conceptualizes the Chinese gate as a membrane-like apparatus that, from the space "in-between," efficaciously manifests ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Indian Realism

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1938, Indian Realism is a reconstruction of the Yogacara Vijnanavada (Subjective Idealism) and an exhaustive criticism of it by the different schools of Indian realism. The exposition of the doctrine is based on the works of Santaraksita and Kamalasila and the critics of Vijnanavada. Generally each thinker’s exposition and criticism have been given separately. Profound thinkers ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • The Philosophy of No-Mind

    Experience Without Self

    Series series Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies
    Nishihira Tadashi, one of Japan's leading philosophers, introduces the deeply experiential philosophy of no-mind (mushin). In everyday Japanese, mushin is when one loses oneself in the reality of the present and becomes one with it, resulting in one's best performance. However, behind this everyday use is a concept that touches the core of Japanese spirituality.This book explores no-mind in its ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • The Berlin Antisemitism Controversy

    After a long struggle, Jewish emancipation was formally completed in Germany in 1871, when Wilhelm I abolished religious discrimination across the entire Reich. Yet the very same decade witnessed a new wave of antisemitism, one more vicious and virulent than anything before. At its centre was what is known as ‘The Berlin Antisemitism Controversy’. How can this rise of antisemitism be explained ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • From Fire To Light

    Rereading the Manusmriti

    by Arvind Sharma ...
    'To write on the Manusmriti is to play with fire! This statement is not merely metaphorical; the Manusmriti has a history of being literally torched. But where there is fire, there is also the possibility of light.'Why yet another book on the Manusmriti?In From Fire to Light, acclaimed academic Arvind Sharma argues that the present understanding of the Manusmriti - regarded as a text designed by ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • 壯遊天地間: Over the Mountains and Seas

    World Adventures (I)

    本書收集了許之微遊歷歐、美、亞三大洲25個國家的29篇遊記。這些遊記不僅向讀者介紹了各地的名勝,而且紀錄了作者遊歷中所見、所聞、所思,涉及到各地歷史地理、風土人情和社會現狀。旅遊幫助我們開闊眼界和加深認知。作者在中美兩國接受過國際政治、思想史、政治學和史學等學科的正規教育。遊歷天下,親臨其境,那些書本上如同乾枯藤蔓的理論,隨著目之所見,心之所動,便長出嫩綠的枝葉來。讀者不難在這些遊記中見到新穎的觀感和思想的火花。在作者即將出版的另外一本文集《行旅遍五洲》中,將有更多的包括非洲和大洋洲的遊記發表。許之微早年畢業於北京大學國際政治系並留校任教。上世紀80年代赴美,曾先後就讀於喬治城大學、約翰‧霍布金斯大學和密執安大學的研究生院。許之微勤於筆耕,多年來創作和發表過不少詩歌、劇本、散文、遊記,同時受邀舉辦過哲學、歷史、宗教,以及文學和藝術的講座。繼2018年1月長篇小說《越洋追兇 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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